Belmont University students, faculty and staff participating in a 10-day evangelistic mission trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, later this month will be providing regular updates online at a new weblog created just for the trip.
Belmont Mission Team Invites You To Follow Mission Trip Online
Union Planters Honors Belmont’s Top Student Entrepreneur
Union Planters Bank has established a $5,000 scholarship award to be given annually to the Outstanding Belmont Student Entrepreneur. The first recipient of the award is Kevin Alexandroni, a business student who also operates a kosher catering business, Sova Catering.
“We’ve made a five-year commitment to the program,” said Ron Samuels, regional president and CEO of the Nashville-based operations of Memphis-based Union Planters Bank, “One of our business objectives is to help small business. At the core of our whole banking business is dealing with small business.
“Entrepreneurial programs such as Dr. Cornwall’s are not prevalent on every campus. We like the fact that Belmont is encouraging students to develop business plans and then implement those plans,” Samuels said. “That’s not common in most business schools.”
Belmont Entrepreneurship Program Gains National Top-10 Ranking
Belmont University is nationally ranked as one of the top ten schools with an Emphasis in Entrepreneurship by Entrepreneur magazine in the May 2004 issue. Belmont’s program is the only Top-10 ranked university entrepreneurship program in Tennessee.
Belmont Launches New Radio Ads
Belmont has launched two new radio spots currently airing on 107.5 The River (WRVW), 102.5 The Party (WQZQ), and 101.1 The Beat (WUBT). You can hear them here: Radio Ad #1 | Radio Ad #2
Kresge Coverage
Belmont raises $2.9 million; gets Kresge challenge grant – Nashville City Paper
Belmont Wins Dove Award
A recording project with roots at Belmont University won a prestigious Dove Award Wednesday night at the Gospel Music Association’s 35th Annual Dove Awards awards show in Nashville.
The song “Poor Man Lazarus,” from the Fisk Jubilee Singers album In Bright Mansions won a Dove for Traditional Gospel Recorded Song of the Year. The album was produced by Belmont University
Belmont Meets Challenge; To Receive $800,000 Grant
Belmont University has successfully met the Kresge Challenge, raising $2.9 million in donations and pledges required in order to receive an $800,000 grant from The Kresge Foundation.
The Kresge challenge grant required Belmont to raise $2.9 million by May 1, 2004, in order to receive the $800,000. The Kresge funding will help pay for the new multipurpose complex that includes the Beaman Student Life Center, Curb Event Center, and Maddox Grand Atrium.
The Road to Athens Olympics Runs Through Belmont
Belmont University’s Curb Event Center will host a portion of the 2004 U.S. Gymnastics Championships 2004 U.S. Gymnastics Championships June 2-5, 2004, which will determine national champions and U.S. national team members, and help choose the athletes who will compete at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials later that month.
The Olympic trials determine the make-up of the U.S. Olympic Team that will compete later this year in Athens, Greece.
Health Records Summit at Belmont
Belmont University’s School of Nursing organized and hosted a “health records summit” involving representatives from the nursing programs at several area universities and from several area hospitals, with a goal of standardizing the collection and distribution of health records from nursing students.
“Within the environments in which we work, student health records are an issue,” said Dr. Debra Wollaber, Dean of the College of Health Sciences and the School of Nursing at Belmont. “Although all of us recognize that the overall purpose of obtaining accurate health records from our students is vital to the safety of our patients, students, faculty and professional colleagues, the process we use to request, gather, compile, analyze and distribute these data is faulty at best.
“To say the least, the process is time-consuming, costly in some cases, redundant, and frustrating for each of us.”
Representatives from Aquinas College, Austin Peay State University, Belmont University, Columbia State Community College, Cumberland University, Middle Tennessee State University, Tennessee State University, Vanderbilt University, and the Tennessee Board of Regents attended, along with representatives from Baptist Hospital, Centennial Medical Center, Maury Regional Medical Center, Saint Thomas Hospital, Summit Medical Center, Southern Hills Medical Center, Vanderbilt Medical Center, VA Medical Center, Williamson Medical Center, the Metro Nashville public health department.
Center for Entrepreneurship Presents Growth by Expecting the Unexpected Seminar
Growth by Expecting the Unexpected, a Business Leadership Strategy Forum, is scheduled for Wednesday, April 28, 2004, from 8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. at Caterpillar Financial Services, located at 2120 West End Avenue. The seminar is sponsored by the Center for Entrepreneurship Women’s Programs. Attendees will hear successful business leadership strategies and insight from women who navigate in today’s changing environment – including analysis of markets for product/service and personal stories of turning challenges into triumphs.
